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Tonight, I went to BuildBrighton, an informal hackerspace being run in a coworking space in the centre of Brighton. There were some interesting people there, and varying levels of technical ability: some beginners building kits, others (more experienced) assembling full-custom robots and sensor platforms. Interesting night. I'll probably go back, though I don't know if it'll be next week. It's nice to see that Brighton does have a hardware-geek population, even if we seem to be fairly stealthy.
It amuses me to note that almost all of those present were either graduates from or worked at Sussex University.
The week has been kinda uninteresting, hence the total lack of posting. One of our favourite receptionists at the Sports Centre busted her ankle in almost exactly the same way as I did last year, under almost exactly the same circumstances, and is now hobbling everywhere. My work is continuing: this week, I have been mostly implementing ring buffers in everything, as none of the fixed-length buffering code I hacked together some time ago actually works properly past the zeroth index. *sigh* I hate pointer arithmetic... So I'm not using it any more :)
Traditionally, I relax as far as possible on weekends. This means I tend not to get a lot done, but I'm unwound and ready to face the world again on Monday. Saturday this week may have been a record, even for me: I woke up past midday, and can't think of a single useful thing I did all day. Except maybe the washing. Hmm.
At least Justin was in town today. He, and I, and a few mutual friends had the chance to catch up, first over a pint in the Great Eastern, then later in Wagamama over tea. The food in Wagamama is pretty good (Japanese Cuisine, which ISN'T sushi, thank $foo), even if the wait staff are a bit dismissive. At least this time I didn't get stepped on, just nudged around a bit. And their chocolate fudge cake with vanilla ice-cream and wasabi sauce really shouldn't be that good.
...that was the old roleplay group, actually. Me and Justin, Al, Sam and Rhi: since Justin moved to Horsham, and one of us got involved with an SO, and the world got in the way... I'm not sure we're gonna meet too often now, and if so mostly as friends. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, I suppose, even if a small part of me pines for Alex's Magical Tortoise, the Sensible Stealth Trousers and the other puzzling things that happened to our poor characters on a near weekly basis. Things move on, and I'm now aware of another roleplay group (coincidentally involving nearly all the same people, plus more) in the area to which I might wander at some point.
Guess we'll see.
In other news, my PC has been whining intermittently for a couple of weeks. Craig dropped in this evening, sat on my bed and talked for a bit, then stood up, handed me a washing-up sponge, and told me to wedge it between the machine and the desk. I did so. End of whine: 'twas a rattling case panel, it seems. I hate it when other people are right :)